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Grounding global justice : race, class, and grassroots globalism in the United States and Mexico / Eric D. Larson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]Description: xvi, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520388567
  • 0520388569
  • 9780520388574
  • 0520388577
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Contents:
Part I: (In)visibilizing empire: ambivalent nationalism and the origins of global justice -- Food sovereignty : the origins of an idea -- Ambivalent nationalism : food sovereignty in Mexico's age of NAFTA -- The specter of U.S. decline : ambivalent Americanism and the Jobs with Justice coalition in the 1980s -- Part II: Racism and global justice in a multicultural age -- Against Coca-Colonization : neoliberal multiculturalism and indigenous insurgency in Southern Mexico -- Obscuring empire : color-blind anticorporatism and the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle -- Invisibilizing immigration : color-blind anticorporatism and the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle -- Part III: Two protests: global justice in the twenty-first century -- "Localizing" global justice : class, nation, and the Jobs with Justice coalition after Seattle -- The WTO is back : UNORCA, the Vía Campesina, and the struggle over agriculture in Cancún -- The radical road to Cancún : anarchism and autonomy for the popular indigenous council of Oaxaca-Ricardo Flores Magón -- Epilogue.
Summary: "'Globalization.' The rise of Trumpism has once again galvanized public debate about this highly charged term. This book looks at the last time the concept spurred wide-ranging and unruly agitation: the late twentieth century. In offering a transnational history of the explosive emergence of antiglobalization movements in the United States and Mexico, it considers how farmers, workers, and Indigenous peoples struggled to change the direction of the world economy. They did so by grounding their efforts to confront free-market economic reforms in frontline struggles for economic and racial justice. The story revolves around three popular organizations, and their paths allow us to reinterpret some of the crucial moments, messages, and movements of the era, including the Mexican roots of the idea of food sovereignty, racism and whiteness at the momentous 'Battle of Seattle' protests outside the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings, and the rise of dramatic street demonstrations around the globe"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The rise of Trumpism and the Covid-19 pandemic have galvanized debates about globalization. Eric D. Larson presents a timely look at the last time the concept spurred unruly agitation: the late twentieth century. Offering a transnational history of the emergence of the global justice movement in the United States and Mexico, he considers how popular organizations laid the foundations for this "movement of movements." Farmers, urban workers, and Indigenous peoples grounded their efforts to confront free-market reforms in frontline struggles for economic and racial justice. As they strove to change the direction of the world economy, they often navigated undercurrents of racism, nationalism, and neoliberal multiculturalism, both within and beyond their networks. Larson traces the histories of three popular organizations, examining the Mexican roots of the idea of food sovereignty; racism and whiteness at the momentous Battle of Seattle protests outside the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings; and the rise of dramatic street demonstrations around the globe. Juxtaposing these stories, he reinterprets some of the crucial moments, messages, and movements of the era.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-318) and index.

Part I: (In)visibilizing empire: ambivalent nationalism and the origins of global justice -- Food sovereignty : the origins of an idea -- Ambivalent nationalism : food sovereignty in Mexico's age of NAFTA -- The specter of U.S. decline : ambivalent Americanism and the Jobs with Justice coalition in the 1980s -- Part II: Racism and global justice in a multicultural age -- Against Coca-Colonization : neoliberal multiculturalism and indigenous insurgency in Southern Mexico -- Obscuring empire : color-blind anticorporatism and the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle -- Invisibilizing immigration : color-blind anticorporatism and the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle -- Part III: Two protests: global justice in the twenty-first century -- "Localizing" global justice : class, nation, and the Jobs with Justice coalition after Seattle -- The WTO is back : UNORCA, the Vía Campesina, and the struggle over agriculture in Cancún -- The radical road to Cancún : anarchism and autonomy for the popular indigenous council of Oaxaca-Ricardo Flores Magón -- Epilogue.

"'Globalization.' The rise of Trumpism has once again galvanized public debate about this highly charged term. This book looks at the last time the concept spurred wide-ranging and unruly agitation: the late twentieth century. In offering a transnational history of the explosive emergence of antiglobalization movements in the United States and Mexico, it considers how farmers, workers, and Indigenous peoples struggled to change the direction of the world economy. They did so by grounding their efforts to confront free-market economic reforms in frontline struggles for economic and racial justice. The story revolves around three popular organizations, and their paths allow us to reinterpret some of the crucial moments, messages, and movements of the era, including the Mexican roots of the idea of food sovereignty, racism and whiteness at the momentous 'Battle of Seattle' protests outside the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings, and the rise of dramatic street demonstrations around the globe"-- Provided by publisher.

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